I dont have time to learn PowerShell…..

Rubbish !

I heard on one of the pod casts about this website so I thought I would blog about it for all of my sysadmin friends who claim they do not have time to learn PowerShell.

The important thing to remember is that if you follow these and start using PowerShell you will be saving time in the future, and believe me you will be saving alot of time.

The important thing to remember about PowerShell is that it isn’t only there for the scripts its also there for the simple commands that you don’t need to write massive scripts for.

For example if you need information about how much memory each server has and what domain it is in and what make the server is and you have the names in a text file then this simple one-liner can get that for you….

Get-Content C:\Servers.txt |Foreach-object {Get-WmiObject -class Win32_ComputerSystemcomputername $_} | Format-Table Name, Domain, Model, TotalPhysicalMemory

Now think about how much time it would take you to rdp to each server and gather this information ?!?

Seriously, get learning…..

Learning Powershell in your lunch break Episode 1 – Getting Organized
Learning Powershell in your lunch break Episode 2 – Writing Scripts and Translating VBScript
Learning Powershell in your lunch break Episode 3 – Discovering objects (COM, WMI & ADSI)
Learning Powershell in your lunch break Episode 4 – Ins and Outs of the Windows Registry
Learning Powershell in your lunch break Episode 5 – Using WMI
Learning Powershell in your lunch break Episode 6 – ADSI Connecting to Domains/Computers and Binding Objects
Learning Powershell in your lunch break Episode 7 – Manage Users

I dare you to go through these and then not use PowerShell !

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